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14 unusual facts about Bolívar


Bolivar, Mississippi

Mark Twain mentioned Bolivar Landing in his parody "River Intelligence", published in the New Orleans Crescent in 1859.

Trusten Polk, a former U.S. Senator and Governor of Missouri, was captured by Union forces at Bolivar Landing in 1863, along with his wife and two daughters.

Bolivar, West Virginia

Upon petitioning the Assembly for a town charter, the citizens of Mudfort chose to name their town for the South American revolutionary leader, Simón Bolívar (July 24, 1783 – December 17, 1830).

Calamar

Calamar, Bolívar, a town and municipality in Bolívar Department, Colombia

Chlorocardium

They are present in Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, and the Guiana Shield (in northeastern Brazil, Venezuela (Amazonas, Bolívar and Delta Amacuro states), Guyana, Surinam and French Guiana).

Heliamphora exappendiculata

Heliamphora exappendiculata (Latin: ex = without, appendicula = small appendage) is a species of marsh pitcher plant native to the Chimantá and Aprada Massifs of Bolívar state, Venezuela.

Heliamphora sarracenioides

Heliamphora sarracenioides (Latin: Sarracenia = genus of North American pitcher plants, -oides = resembling) is a species of marsh pitcher plant endemic to Ptari Tepui in Bolívar state, Venezuela.

Jesús Salvador Pérez

Jesús Salvador Pérez Llerena (born December 25, 1971 in Córdoba, Bolívar) is a retired male boxer from Colombia, who competed in the bantamweight division (– 54 kg) during his career.

Kuisi

On the coastal plain, for example the town of San Jacinto, Bolívar, an ensemble known as the conjunto de gaitas commonly provides the music for the cumbia, porro, and other folk styles such as vallenato.

Miguel de Bonilla y Laya-Bolívar

Bonilla walked to Alajuela with Rafael Francisco Osejo, president of the toppled government, and there they convinced Gregorio José Ramírez y Castro to command the republican forces, who defeated the royalists in the Battle of Ochomogo the following April 5.

San Juan Nepomuceno

San Juan Nepomuceno, Bolívar, a municipality in Bolívar department of Colombia

Stephen T. McClard

Currently (2002 to present), Director of Bands at Bolivar High School, Bolivar, Missouri.

Wayne Haddix

Samuel LaWayne Haddix (born July 23, 1965 in Bolivar, Tennessee) is a former American football defensive back in the National Football League who played for the New York Giants (1987–1988), Tampa Bay Buccaneers (1990–1991), and Cincinnati Bengals (1991).

Zambrano

Zambrano, Bolívar, town and municipality in Bolívar Department of northern Colombia


6th Regiment Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry

The 6th Tennessee Cavalry was organized at Bethel Springs, LaGrange, Bolivar, and Trenton, Tennessee and mustered in 11 August 1862 for a three year enlistment under the command of Colonel Fielding Hurst.

Antonio José de Sucre

Finally, the Assembly president José Mariano Serrano, together with a commission, wrote down the "Independence Act of the Upper Peruvian Departments" which carries the date of August 6, 1825, in honor of the Battle of Junín won by Bolivar.

Battle of Pichincha

By that time, the tide of the wars of independence in South America had turned decisively against Spain: Simón Bolívar's victory at the Battle of Boyacá (August 7, 1819) had sealed the independence of the former Viceroyalty of Nueva Granada, while to the south, José de San Martín, having landed with his army on the Peruvian coast on September, 1820, was preparing the campaign for the independence of the Viceroyalty of Perú.

Bolivar railway station, South Australia

ARTC has a file dated 2004 with a diagram of Bolivar loop.

Bolivar Trask

Recently in X-Force, Bastion (who has been reactivated by the Purifiers) has apparently resurrected Bolivar Trask through use of a Technarch to be part of a team of the world's foremost mutant killers.

Bonnetia bolivarensis

It is found only in Venezuela, known only from a single locality in the summit savanna of Ptari-tepui, in Canaima National Park in Bolívar.

Casa de Nariño

The anteroom of the formal room is decorated with the pictures Madre Superiora or La Monja (The nun) by Fernando Botero, the triptych Glorificación de Bolívar by Andrés de Santa María and Angela Cayendo by Alejandro Obregón.

Clemencia

Clemencia, Colombia, a town and municipality located in the Bolívar Department, northern Colombia.

Club Ciudad de Bolívar

The club's foundation was initiative of TV host and entrepreneur Marcelo Tinelli (who was born in San Carlos de Bolívar).

Colombian Tinamou

The Colombian Tinamou, Crypturellus erythropus columbianus, is a tinamou found in Córdoba, Sucre, Bolívar, and Antioquia in north-central Colombia.

Copa Aerosur

Later on, the Cup became a tournament between the 6 best teams of the main cities: Wilstermann, Oriente Petrolero, Blooming, The Strongest and Bolivar, and Club Aurora.

Decree of War to the Death

The decree was an explicit call to use terror tactics in Bolívar's attempt to maintain Venezuelan independence in the war with Spain, since he felt that the Spanish Army's use of atrocities against those who supported the First Republic of Venezuela had contributed decisively to its defeat.

Franklin Tenorio

Franklin Bolívar Tenorio Ramón (born June 30, 1969 in Salcedo, Cotopaxi) is an Ecuadorian long-distance and marathon runner.

Giovanni Buscaglione

He designed buildings across many departments of Colombia including Amazonas, Antioquia, Bolívar, Boyacá, Cundinamarca, Meta, Santander and Valle del Cauca.

Golf Canada

Other International events the RCGA has been much involved in are the World Amateur Team Matches for the Eisenhower Trophy, since 1958: winning in 1986, placing second in 1962, 1964, 1978, and 2006, and hosting these “Olympics” of golf in 1992; the Commonwealth Matches, won by Canada in 1971 and 1975, discontinued in 1975; and the Simon Bolivar Biennial Tournament, won in 1981 by Doug Roxburgh and Gary Cowan representing Canada.

Héctor Thomas

Héctor Thomas Martínez (born October 10, 1938 in El Callao, Bolívar, died December 23, 2008 in Caracas, Distrito Capital) was a track and field athlete from Venezuela, who competed in the decathlon.

Iván Castillo

Iván Sabino Castillo Salinas (born July 11, 1970 in Coripata, La Paz) is a retired football defender from Bolivia, who played at club level for Bolívar, The Strongest and La Paz F.C. in Bolivia.

Jean-Jacques Chevallier

His mother was a great-granddaughter of the Ecuadorian jurist José Fernández Salvador and a grand-daughter of Charles Eloi Demarquet, one of Bolivar's principal aides-de-camp.

Jinsop

His last performances were in Guayaquil on March 8, 2012 at the Simon Bolivar Convention Center alongside the Spanish singer Jeanette and the Argentine singer Elio Roca.

Jorge Swett

He created more than 100 murals during his lifetime, many of which can be seen in buildings throughout his hometown, such as the Municipal Museum of Guayaquil, the Social Security Fund Building, the old Simon Bolivar Airport, the Children's Hospital, the Catholic University of Santiago of Guayaquil, Ecuavisa, among others.

Joseph Karge

His victory over General Nathan Bedford Forrest at Bolivar, Tennessee is the only cavalry loss record for Forrest, who developed a reputation as a superb cavalry leader.

Latin American wars of independence

Bolívar and other republican leaders returned to Venezuela in December 1816, leading a largely unsuccessful insurrection against Spain from 1816 to 1818 from bases in the Llanos and Ciudad Bolívar in the Orinoco River area.

Lenny Simonetti

After his football career, Simonetti worked as a weighmaster for the state of Ohio in Bolivar.

Libertador Simón Bolívar Terminal

Caracas Libertador Simón Bolívar railway station is found in the southern part of Caracas, Venezuela, in an area known as La Rinconada.

Luis Galván

In 1986 Galván moved to Bolivia to play for Bolívar in La Paz, but his stay there didn't last long, and he returned to play for Talleres in 1987.

Maria del Pilar Ortiz

In 1997, while working at Caracol TV, she received the Simon Bolivar National Journalism Award in the category of Best Television Chronicle of the Year.

Marta Larraechea

Marta Larraechea Bolívar (born March 14, 1944 in Constitución, Talca Province) is a social orientator, politician and wife of Chilean President Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle.

Miguel Mercado

Miguel Ángel Mercado Melgar (born August 30, 1975 in Santa Cruz de la Sierra), is a former Bolivian football striker who spent most of his career playing for Bolívar.

Nicolás Peric

In December 2004 Peric was suspended for six months by the CONMEBOL because he had tested positive for cocaine -he and team members would have drunk coca leaf tea before the game- against Bolívar in La Paz, Bolivia.

Puerto Bolívar

Puerto Bolivar is part of the municipality of Machala, El Oro Province, Ecuador.

Rudy Cardozo

Rudy Alejandro Cardozo Fernandez (born 14 February 1990 in Tarija, Bolivia) is a Bolivian footballer who plays for Bolívar in the Liga de Fútbol Profesional Boliviano and the Bolivian national team.

San Carlos de Bolívar

San Carlos de Bolívar is the hometown of the Club Ciudad de Bolívar, the most successful team of the Argentine volleyball league.

Simón Bolívar metro station

It is named for the nearby Simón Bolívar Avenue, which in turn is named after Simón Bolívar.

Tulcán

In April 14, 1814 with charges of conspiracy of fight for independence they were shot in Bolivar.

Without Breasts There Is No Paradise

Bolívar says the story is based on real-life conditions facing child prostitutes in the town of Pereira.

WTGR

The WBOL callsign is now used at another AM station in Bolivar, Tennessee.